Photographer smile

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Photographer smile
Studio album by Julian Lennon

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s)

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

14th

running time

64:29

occupation

production

chronology
Help Yourself
(1991) 		Photographer smile Everything Changes
(2011)

Photograph Smile is the fifth music album by the singer Julian Lennon . It was released in May 1998 in Great Britain and Germany and in February 1999 in the USA.

Emergence

After Lennon had released his album Help Yourself in 1991 , he withdrew from the music business. He left his record company Atlantic Records and moved to northern Italy , where he turned to architecture and interior design and opened a restaurant. For his new record, which he largely produced himself, he founded the music label "Music from Another Room", through which the CD was distributed in Great Britain. The cover shows a children's photo of Lennon.

For Lennon, the main reason for recording a new album after seven years was to look back on previous releases: “I didn't want my last albums to represent my legacy to the music industry. They just weren't good enough. I wanted to make an album that I could be proud of. One that I'm in control of, ”he explained in a 1999 interview.

Lennon album was released on 18 May 1998 and on the same day, and his half-brother to the Sean Lennon released his debut album Into the Sun published.

After the publication of Photograph Smile and a subsequent tour of several weeks through the USA and Europe, Lennon withdrew into private life.

title

  1. Day After Day - 4:19
  2. Cold - 4:41
  3. I Should Have Known - 4:16
  4. How Many Times - 5:51
  5. I Don't Wanna Know - 4:04
  6. Crucified - 5:11
  7. Walls - 4:47
  8. Believe - 4:52
  9. Good to Be Lonely - 4:25
  10. Kiss Beyond the Catcher - 4:00
  11. And She Cries - 3:49
  12. Photograph Smile - 4:35
  13. Faithful - 3:41
  14. Way to Your Heart - 5:40

Lennon, who could also be heard on the album as guitarist, keyboardist, background singer and arranger, wrote all the tracks on the album himself. Day After Day , Cold , I Don't Wanna Know , Good to Be Lonely and And She Cries were created in collaboration with Mark Spiro , while Lennon worked with Greg Darling on Crucified , Walls , Kiss Beyond the Catcher and Photograph Smile . Way to Your Heart was created in collaboration with Dalbello .

The version of the album released in Japan contained two bonus tracks with Don't Let Me Down and I Need You .

The single Day After Day was part of the soundtrack of the love comedy Love at First Cry from 1998.

Chart successes

The album Photograph Smile reached number 94 in the German charts and was Lennon's first album to make it into the German charts. In Austria , the album reached number 40 in Australia , it was ranked 28 in the charts.

The only single to hit the charts was Day After Day : it reached number 66 in the UK.

criticism

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic found that Lennon had found his way back to the "Beatlesquen" roots of his debut album Valotte under the influence of groups like Oasis or Blur . Many of the tracks on the album are piano-accompanied ballads, and although the album is not very varied, the music is melodic and well crafted - and would get more praise if it weren't for the son of a Beatle .

Rolling Stone wrote that Photograph Smile was an intimate, simple album. It sounds like the work of a man who has made peace with the ghosts of the past and is now finally starting to write new melodies again, even if the album won't revolutionize pop music.

Der Spiegel described Photograph Smile as a record with “a lot of Julian, a little John, but also very few ideas”, while WOM said that Lennon had with Photograph Smile “his best album to date, an emotional review of his life”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "I didn't want to leave the last couple of albums as my legacy in the music industry. It's just not good enough. I wanted to do an album I was wholly proud of, one that I had total control over. ” Daniel Durchholz: The Other Son. In: Rolling Stone . February 24, 1999, archived from the original on May 9, 2006 ; accessed on May 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Cf. musicline.de ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  3. ↑ See austriancharts.at
  4. ↑ See review on allmusic.com
  5. ^ Rollingstone.com
  6. ↑ Christoph Dallach: The ballad of Sean and Julian . In: Kulturspiegel, May 1998, p. 23.
  7. ↑ Julian Lennon . In: WOM, August 1998.